2wzilla
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Well now, been lurking around YouTube and came across some nifty Electric Motorcycles. I know some will say "You god darn green energy junky", and all. But I find the concept or Electrical Motorcycles rather interesting, given that electrical motors provide "instant" power delivery (*** kind off, but not really fully instant ***) without the lag of injecting the fuel into the engine, because there isn't any fuel . But, as with anything Electrical there is always the downside of battery and charging, given that here in North America we ain't big on Electrical vehicles and as such don't have charging station as rapidly available as say in Europe, plus having to wait 30 min to 3 hours for your car or Motorcycle to fuel up is pretty darn long, considering gas takes 2-4 minutes to fuel up and you're good to go for another 250-400 km trip.
Plus being a bit of a geeky person that I am I keep tabs on Electrical Motorcycles and other general techy gear. Funny to me not many companies stay afloat in the world of Electric Motorcycles. For example I came across Mission RS on YouTube today by a blind luck, the bike looks like any other 600-1000cc bikes with exception it's electrical, but Mission Motorcycles seemed to have died and no longer makes Mission RS, which is bit annoying given that if you bought one you're stuck without any support or parts for that thing, unless they still make parts for it.
The other Electrical Motorcycle company that's been around for few years and is still around is Zero Motorcycles, unlike Mission Motorcycles their prices aren't as ridiculous granted you're not getting a fully electric SS like you were with Mission, but hey I can't complain about a more or less reasonable price for a Supermoto like fully Electric Bike. Well who knows maybe one day Motorcycles will be fully Electric like in many different Japanese Anime titles, or like in good old iRobot or Judge Dredd. But for now neither are Electric Cars or Motorcycles the future, they are still a very long way to go in delivering the technology to general public without the crazy price tag. But the idea behind Electric Bikes and there 2.0 functionality with the Web/Cloud was amazing, sure some may scream privacy, others may scream no clutch or gear box, but oh well .